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Master William’S Hamnet: A New Theory On Shakespeare’S Sonnets, Juan Daniel Millán
Master William’S Hamnet: A New Theory On Shakespeare’S Sonnets, Juan Daniel Millán
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This essay suggests the Fair Youth in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, to whom he later dedicated the cycle. Nevertheless, the larger claims of the essay are independent of the biographical details of Shakespeare’s life, and even independent of the particular ordering of the Sonnets as they have come down to us.